Cold War Basics
This term describes the tense political and military rivalry after WWII between the U.S. and the USSR.
What is the cold war?
This crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The belief in individual rights, free elections, and capitalism.
What is democracy?
This was the result of the Vietnam War for the U.S.
What is U.S. withdrawal / loss?
U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This wall symbolized the division between East and West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The economic system where the government owns everything.
What is communism?
Chinese campaign for industrial growth that led to famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Soviet leader who faced off with Kennedy.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
A U.S. aid plan to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The event that began the Space Race.
What is the launch of Sputnik?
This system promotes private property and free markets.
Capitalism
Mao’s effort to remove old culture and promote communist values.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Chinese communist revolutionary leader.
Who is Mao Zedong?
A military alliance formed by the U.S. and Western Europe.
What is NATO?
This U.S. action supplied food and fuel to West Berlin in 1948–49.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Focuses on shared group goals and equality over personal freedoms.
What is collectivism?
Mao’s youth supporters during the Cultural Revolution.
Who are the Red Guards?
The U.S. program promising to support nations resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Cold War was mainly a conflict between these two ideologies.
What are capitalism and communism?
The war where North and South Korea fought with U.S. and Soviet support.
What is the Korean War?
A system where the government has total control.
What is totalitarianism?
This Asian country was divided into North (communist) and South (capitalist).
What is Korea?
The USSR’s alliance in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?